Quotes about children
children giving hopeful
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future. Giorgio Napolitano
children kids interesting
Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting. Geraldo Rivera
children speak my-children
I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.
children real two
The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers
children parent black
I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.
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Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for. Gerard Manley Hopkins
children issues parent
My parents didn't overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That's when things go wrong. It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin. Harry Melling
children careers actors
I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.
children home boys
It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. Harry Mathews
children years europe
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
children views long
In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children. Harry S Truman
children important welfare
Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.
children kids home
Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.
children men names
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.
children men naughty
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself. Immanuel Kant
children men waiting
I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait for one hour in the Forbidden Forest. If, at the end of that hour, you have not come to me, have not given yourself up, then battle recommences. This time, I shall enter the fray myself, Harry Potter, and I shall find you, and I shall punish every last man, woman, and child who has tried to conceal you from me. One hour. J. K. Rowling
children ideas world
The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.
children book writing
I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.
children thinking persons
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child. Grace Jones
children years church
I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses. Ja Rule
children men age
The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child. Georg Brandes
children character childhood
Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking. Jessica Valenti
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How many lives has this law cost our nation? How many lives of innocent children pulled out of school by mothers or fathers who are irresponsible or tricked by illusions? Fidel Castro
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How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises? Margo Lanagan
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All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences. Tony Buzan
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In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think. Sugata Mitra
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There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need. Ann Veneman
children might specific writers
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour. Quentin Blake
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong. Laura Schlessinger
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What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances. Dannel Malloy
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Here in the United States, there is a tendency to over-prescribe in some instances. But it pales in comparison to the under-prescription or under-recognition of these problems in children, ... We know from a variety of epidemiologic and other related studies, that as many as half of the children with conditions such as ADHD are not being treated at all. Peter Jensen
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Having watched their children grow up with a keyboard at their fingertips, parents know that their kids will inevitably turn to their computers for entertainment. And parents also know that downloading music is easy, prevalent and often illegal. These days, colleges and universities can offer alternatives that are just as easy and available, but more importantly to parents, legal.